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Priyansh Garg

Senior Software Engineer @BrowserStack | Maintainer @nightwatchjs | GSoC'21 @Zulip | IIITDM Jabalpur

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Experience

4 years, 8 months

BrowserStack

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2024 - Present (1 yr, 2 m) • remote • full-time

Acting as the sole maintainer of the Nightwatch.js project with over 11.7k GitHub stars, handling a wide array of responsibilities including development, documentation, product, mentorship, user support, etc.
Leading the Google Summer of Code program for Nightwatch and mentoring 2 contributors as part of it.

JavaScript

NodeJS

TypeScriptProduct

Software Engineer

Jul 2022 - Mar 2024 (1 yr, 8 m) • remote • full-time

Introduced Mobile Testing in Nightwatch, helped design and implement a brand new Element API and extensively improved the TypeScript support from under 40% to 95%.
Owned, maintained and provided internal and external support on different parts of the project.

JavaScript

NodeJS

TypeScript

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 (5 m) • remote • full-time

Developed an onboarding CLI tool for Nightwatch allowing new users to set up and run their first test in under 1 min.
Introduced Pause & Debug capability in Nightwatch and added support for Chrome DevTools Protocol.

JavaScript

NodeJS

TypeScript

Zulip

Google Summer of Code (Student Developer)

May 2021 - Aug 2021 (3 m) • remote • full-time

Developed an import tool that helped 100+ organizations to migrate from Rocket.Chat to Zulip.
Created a suite of GitHub Actions for optimizing various GitHub-related workflows in Zulip.
Enhanced UI/UX, resolved various important issues around the onboarding and compose area of Zulip.

Python

Django

NodeJS

TypeScript

MongoDB

GirlScript Summer of Code

Project Admin

Mar 2021 - May 2021 (2 m) • remote • volunteer

Python

Django

SQLHTML / CSS / JavaScript

Education

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

2018 - 2022

Certification

Google Summer of Code'21

Google Summer of Code ↗

Sep 2021 - No Expiry

Project Admin - GSSoC'21

GirlScript Summer of Code ↗

Jun 2021 - No Expiry

Project Admin - SWoC'21

Script Winter of Code

Apr 2021 - No Expiry

Mentor - KWoC'20

Kharagpur Open Source Society ↗

Jan 2021 - No Expiry

Grand Finalist - SIH 2020

Smart India Hackathon 2020 ↗

Sep 2020 - No Expiry

Volunteering

Lead Volunteer

Jagrati - An Initiative of IIITians

Oct 2018 - May 2022

Jagrati is an initiative by the students of IIITDM Jabalpur to provide free and quality education to the poor and under-privileged children of villages surrounding our institute. Apart from teaching, we do many other activities like organizing Blood Donation Camps, Tree Plantation Drives, Cloth Donation, Stationery Distribution, Campaigns to spread awareness in villages, etc.